According to Virginia Satir, a developer of family therapy approaches,
◦ family therapy does not help individual members, but rather the family group.
◦ the family therapist may play many roles, including influence agent, mediator, and referee.
◦ most family therapists assume that the problems brought into therapy are caused by dispositional aspects of individuals.
◦ the family therapist is not really concerned with dissolving dysfunctional structural elements within families.